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Murakami Haruki was born in Kyoto in 1949, but spent his childhood in the city of Kobe. After graduating from Kobe High School, he attended university at Waseda, in Tokyo, and majored in Classical Drama. He reportedly decided to begin writing one day in 1974, while watching a baseball game. It was also in this year that he began running a coffee shop specializing in jazz, which he ran until 1981.
Murakami labored in relative obscurity until the publication of
Norwegian Wood in 1987. This novel became quite big in Japan, and Murakami found himself famous. Already a seasoned traveler he lived in Greece and Italy while writing Norwegian Wood Murakami fled his fame and lived for a long while in the United States, including stints at Princeton and in Cambridge, MA.
Haruki Murakami signs his autograph on his novel Killing Commendatore at a news conference in Tokyo in 2018. (AP file photo)
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami says politicians need to help reduce public uncertainty and fear over the coronavirus and gain people s support by speaking sincerely about the pandemic.
Murakami, in a two-hour live New Year s Eve radio show, urged political leaders to “talk honestly from the gut” to the people to encourage their participation in slowing an upsurge in infections, which are on the verge of getting out of control.
His comments came hours after Japan s capital announced its new daily cases soared to a record 1,337 on Thursday, up sharply from the previous high of 949 on Dec. 26.
His comments came after Japan’s capital announced its new daily cases soared to a record 1,337 up from the previous high of 949.
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami says politicians need to help reduce public uncertainty and fear over the coronavirus and gain people’s support by speaking sincerely about the pandemic.
Murakami, in a two-hour live New Year’s Eve radio show, urged political leaders to “talk honestly from the gut” to the people to encourage their participation in slowing an upsurge in infections, which are on the verge of getting out of control.
His comments came hours after Japan’s capital announced its new daily cases soared to a record 1,337 on Thursday, up sharply from the previous high of 949 on Dec. 26.
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